Slovenia's best known prose and drama writer Cankar (1876-1918) often championed the victims and outcast of capitalist society, and his 1907 novel Martin Kacur does so through the story of the
disastrous degeneration of an idealistic country schoolteacher. Cox (history, North Dakota State U.) uses the 1966 edition published by Mladinska knjiga in Ljubljana as his core text, but also
draws from a 1967 edition when it seems better. His introduction places the novel in the context of socialism, nationalism, esthetic's, and religion after a hundred years. Distributed in the US
by Books International. Annotation 穢2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
